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This work is a sampling of the popular wit and insights of the Garrison Keillor of his era. Deemed "the Sage of Fountain Inn" by Alexander Woollcott, newspaper publisher and editor Robert Quillen (1887-1948) used the forum of the "Fountain Inn Tribune" to bring his anecdotes and opinions from small-town upstate South Carolina to an international audience. The Mark Twain or Garrison Keillor of his day, Quillen developed a reputation as an authentic voice of small-town life, and his words were reprinted in Collier's, the "Saturday Evening Post", "Literary Digest", and other publications. At the height of his syndication, Quillen's writings could be found in more than four hundred newspapers in North America and Europe with a combined circulation above twelve million. The essays, editorials, one-liners, fables, and random comments collected in this volume return to print Quillen's wit and insights after a decades-long hiatus. A native of Kansas, Quillen became a converted southerner over time, and his conservative opinions - especially concerning national politics, Depression-era reforms, and the war effort - reflect those circumstances. Presented in chronological order, the previously published and unpublished pieces collected in this volume include Quillen's rants against noisy neighbors, barking dogs, cats, birds, litter, bootleggers, lynching, sordid county politics, and the encroachment of the federal government. Here, too, are his most famous hometown characters, Willie Willis and Aunt Het, as well as "Letters to Louise, " his comic public messages to his teenage daughter that proved wildly popular with everyone but the addressee. In addition to Quillen's pieces, Moore also provides a brief biography and overview of his subject's career and literary aspirations beyond the venue of newsprint.
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• 1. Materializing regional identity. St. Augustine : the first century, 1565-1665 / Paul E. Hoffman
• Building for disaster : hurricanes and the built environments in South Carolina and the British West Indies / Matthew Mulcahy
• Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier / Carl R. Lounsbury
• "The diversity of countries" : Anglican churches in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson
• Colonial castles : the architecture of social control / Eric Klingelhofer
• Rituals of rulership : the material culture of West Indian politics / Natalie Zacek
• L'Hermitage on the Monocacy Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland / Paula Stoner Reed
• A dissenting space : meetinghouse and location in early Dorchester, South Carolina / Jeffrey H. Richards
• Charlestown to Charleston : urban and plantation connections in an Atlantic setting / Roger H. Leech
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• 2. Locating urbanity. A poetics of urban space / Bernard L. Herman
• Building Charleston : the expansion of an eighteenth-century British Atlantic town / Emma Hart
• Domestic material culture and consumer demand in the British Atlantic world : colonial South Carolina, 1670-1770 / R.C. Nash
• The archaeological signature of eighteenth-century Charleston / Martha A. Zierden
• Changing our habitation : Henry Laurens, Rattray Green, and the revolutionary movement in Charleston's domestic spaces / Benjamin L. Carp
• Raphaelle Peale's Still life with oranges : status, ritual, and the illusion of mastery / Maurie D. McInnis
• Urban plantations in the national city : slavery, republican ideology, and conflict on the streets of early Washington / Laura Croghan Kamoie.

This book offers a heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions. "Material Culture in Anglo-America" examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed environments. This volume explores the material constitution of the West Indies, Carolina lowcountry, and Chesapeake Tidewater - three historically related regions that shared strong likenesses in culture, commerce, and political development in the colonial through antebellum eras, yet also cultivated the distinctive regional flair with which they are now associated. The contributors - an impressive and international array of historical archeologists, art historians, literary historians, museum curators, social historians, geographers, and historians of material culture - combine theoretical reflections on the poetics of representative material culture with empirical studies of how things were made and put to use in specific locales. They argue that the material culture of urban and rural settings interpenetrated each other and discuss the complications of class, race, religion, and settler culture within developing regions to reveal how all of these factors influenced the richness of crafted artifacts. The study is further grounded in several striking case studies that dramatically demonstrate how constructed things can embody communal self-understanding while still participating in an overarching transatlantic cultural community.
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